Greek bronzes . go beyond beardless youth. It is said that Lysippos and Praxitelesapproached most nearly to the truth of nature. From other ancient sources we know that one of the services of Poly-cleitos was that he had worked out for the use of sculptors a set of rules,which the Greeks called a canon, for the construction of the human a set of rules or system of proportions can only be of use to artistsif it is based on a wide generalisation and on a multitude of observationsand measurements of men as they are. If that was the method employedby Polycleitos, we can understand how c
Greek bronzes . go beyond beardless youth. It is said that Lysippos and Praxitelesapproached most nearly to the truth of nature. From other ancient sources we know that one of the services of Poly-cleitos was that he had worked out for the use of sculptors a set of rules,which the Greeks called a canon, for the construction of the human a set of rules or system of proportions can only be of use to artistsif it is based on a wide generalisation and on a multitude of observationsand measurements of men as they are. If that was the method employedby Polycleitos, we can understand how critics came to speak of him ashaving made men better than they were, or as having gone beyond theexact truth of nature. GREEK BRONZES 43 A characteristic of almost every one of his statues was, we read in anancient writer, that it stood resting its weight on one \tg, as in theDiadumenos for example {uno crure insistere). At first sight this doesnot seem any great innovation, because among bronze statuettes older.
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